PART 2SENTENCING

C1C4 CHAPTER 4RELEASE ON LICENCE

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Pt. 2 Ch. 4 applied (29.6.2021) by 1984 c. 47, Sch. para. 2A(4A) (as inserted by Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c. 11), s. 50(2)(r), Sch. 11 para. 5)

F2Duty . . . to release on licence

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Duty to release certain fixed-term prisonersI1C217

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As soon as a fixed-term prisoner, other than F3one to whom Article 18 or 20A applies, has served the requisite custodial period, the F1Department of Justice shall release the prisoner on licence under this Article.

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In this Article “the requisite custodial period” means—

a

subject to sub-paragraph (b), the custodial period specified by the court under Article 8;

b

in relation to a person serving two or more concurrent or consecutive sentences, the period determined under Article 32(2) or 33(2)